The Llama is Angry Again

I've taken quite a long hiatus from my blog!  The main reason is that we've been working flat-out to re-open the Angry Llama Diner, and we're finally there!  We (Journey Church) completely renovated the Conifer Crossings building, adding the "new and improved" Llama Diner, new space for our Mountain Roads Driving School, a gym, a beautiful new meeting room that can hold up to 200, and office space for our church staff.  All the work was done by our church team and an army of volunteers over a period of about five weeks.  I would come home most evenings, have a bite to eat and crash by 8:30.  In my mind I'm still able to work just as hard as I did in my 20's, but at 50 my body says to me every day, "You want me to do WHAT?!?"  They say you're as young as you feel, which would mean I'm about 97 right now. 


One of the cool things about the new Angry Llama is that we've made all the furniture and decorations out of old wooden pallets.  You can see in the pictures on the right that the light fixtures are just pallets hung from the ceiling with a bucket attached as a lamp shade, the tables are made of pallet wood and covered in resin, and all the decorations on the walls are pallet products.

Starting next week we'll head to Bailey to finish all the work on the Bailey Country Store to get it up and running.  Daph and I stopped in at one of the restaurants in Bailey to grab a bite last night, and the waitress said, "I know you - you're the one trying to open the Country Store, right?"  When I told her I was, she replied, "Well hurry up!  We're all getting impatient!"  I've probably heard the same thing from a dozen people in the last month; nice to know the folks in Bailey are behind what we're doing.